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Table 1.

Average frequency changes 30 min after injection of 250 μL PAO1 over bare and MEG-OH coated crystals at various flow rates, and the percent reduction in frequency change caused by the MEG-OH coating

Flow rate (μL/min)	Bare crystal ΔFrequency (kHz)	MEG-OH crystal ΔFrequency (kHz)	Reduction in change (%)
50	3.25 ± 1.08	0.22 ± 0.63	93%
75	6.89 ± 5.00	0.75 ± 0.70	89%
100	2.72 ± 1.83	0.40 ± 0.34	85%
150	1.56 ± 1.47	0.18 ± 0.28	89%
200	1.50 ± 1.55	0.05 ± 0.05	97%

Declarations

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge Gabor Mészáros of the Hungarian Center for Natural Science, Budapest, and Michal Sobota, Tomáš Vincze, and Tomáš Debnár of the Slovak University in Bratislava and Powertec s.r.o. for their hard work in developing the updated EMPAS system.

Author contributions

BDLF: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. MT: Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Validation, Supervision. Both authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

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Availability of data and materials

All datasets for this study are included in the manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [MT 9522]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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